Posted on 05/03/2014 1:46:56 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Putin has become a Great-Russian nationalist, a bigoted throwback to the days before the Bolsheviks arrived. His intent is to regain all the lands that once belonged to the czars.
When President Obama declared in March that Putin “has no ideology,” he betrayed his ignorance of both history and Putin. Who’s briefing this guy?
Putin’s ideology is nationalism, the only belief system that may have killed as many human beings as Marxism. And when a “post-modern” talk-talk America president faces a Russian leader who’s a man of action and whose concept of nationhood refers to the late 19th century, our cherished negotiations merely seal the deal on what Putin’s already taken (anyone really think he’ll give back Crimea and flee from eastern Ukraine?).
Obama talks, Putin kills.
And make no mistake, Putin truly believes he’s entitled to reclaim Ukraine and a great deal more. In his view, independent capitals from Warsaw (yes, Warsaw) to Bishkek are integral and natural parts of the Russian imperium. He regards them as property stolen from its rightful owner: Moscow.
The Putin Doctrine gives Moscow the right, in his view, to intervene wherever ethnic Russians or merely Russian speakers are “threatened.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
The Putin Doctrine provides a justification for ethnic cleansing of ethnic Russians from other countries.
“Putin’s ideology is nationalism, the only belief system that may have killed as many human beings as Marxism. “
This makes me think of those parody articles warning of the dangers of di-hydrogen monoxide, because it has killed millions of people.
Unique among nations, Russia has nationalism! Evil!
It’s good America is not so evil, because we have no nationalism at all.
A lack of nationalism is completely ideal.
The states that give up their culture and identity in europe for an unelected bureaucracy and unimpeded immigration are best.
It’s not “nationalism” that is evil. Just what Russia does with theirs.
“In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn’t such a great idea after all.” - Strobe Talbot, Deputy Secretary of State under Bill Clinton, Time Magazine, 1992
Manifesto for a rebirth of Russia.
Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn, first published in Moscow 1990.
Enough, says Russia's most influential living writer, enough of party bureaucracy, enough of Communist power, enough of a society built on lies. What is needed are not the half-measures of perestroika but a root-and-branch reform that will give the Russians back their country and revitalise the traditional values of the people...
Vladimir Putin, now prime minister after eight years as president, was among the mourners who stopped to express his condolences.
Putin later called for Solzhenitsyn's works to become an important part of Russia's school curriculum.
"Together with the entire nation, he lived through a great tragedy of repressions," Putin said in a televised meeting with Russia's education minister. "But he not only lived through it, but ... by his works and his entire life, he inoculated our society against tyranny in all its forms."
Just look at that face! So benevolent. Who would think he’d disband a church for holding Sunday school classes?
Putin is not a nationalist. No patriot would steal as he has from the people of Russia. Putin is about Putin. And protecting his kleptocracy. He is a dangerous man who dreams of recreating the USSR and being buried in Lenin tomb.
When I read this my 1st thought was, “nationalism is within our own borders, think LaRaza. They believe that we stole their land and they have vowed to take it back.”
Islamists would like to conquer us and either convert us to their religion or subject us to 2nd class citizen status.
Best we develop a bit of our own nationalism before we lose our country.
Interesting, do you have a source you can share about that?
Your are right. Putin’s desire is to recreate the imperial Russia of the tsars.
Putin has the mentality of the Tsars. They both believe the Russian people are a cow to be milked and nothing more.
Yeah, I do. But I’m in the middle of a bunch of crap right now. Give me maybe 30-45 minutes.
Bingo. Leave it to someone the buy into the U.N.’s definition of the problems with Nationalism.
Nations that want sacrosanct borders are evil.
Nations that want to maintain their own culture are evil too, if they aren’t in Africa or the Middle-East, and only then if not Israel.
Nations are evil if they arm for conflict, discouraging adventurism amongst their enemies.
The U.N. has no territory, no citizens, and no right to make decisions for any sovereign nation.
Time to cut the power at Edison.
Learn to read between the lines.
Why don’t you help me read between the lines?
It’s not something one can teach. I suggest you carefully and thoroughly read both articles at the links you gave me and try to work out just why certain denominations might not be welcome to teach unless they had the required permission to do so.
No. Apart from reading that the Russian authorities do not approve of certain denominations, then there’s nothing with which you can help, if you choose not to do so.
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